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Rosanna Arquette - Commune Life, Racism, & Harvey Weinstein

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

CHAPTER

The Super Is Not a Cult, It's a Spiritual Thing

There were a lot of people that I would say were really super dysfunctional going into this thing. And their dysfunction came out in this place. It's like, it's almost like a spiritual thing. Because you can be any religion in it. You just need to believe in the light within. That's all it really is. But then there's so many people that just had the dark within in their own shit that they hadn't worked through in their lives. Why do communes always go bad? I think they wanted to live cheaply.

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